Mint, the acclaimed personal finance tool, is now available on Android tablets, in addition to the iPad. According to Intuit, the company behind Mint, Android has become a must-have platform as 40% of tablets are expected to be running on Android in the near-future. The Android version of Mint should offer a similar experience to the iOS one.
If you are not familiar with Mint (the online service), it is a web-based personal finance manager that launched in 2007 before being acquired by Intuit (the folks behind TurboTax) in 2009 for $170M. Mint has a few things going for it:
- Mint is very well designed, and if you look at the average bank website, you’ll understand what I mean.
- It gathers your financial data (credit cards, bank accounts…) every night so that you don’t ever input it by hand.
- Mint tells you how you can optimize your finances.
Interestingly #2 is the reason why Mint founder Aaron Patzer created the company: after spending an afternoon of tedious financial paperwork, he thought of ways to improve this. However useful, I can’t stress enough how Mint’s design has been (and still is) instrumental to its success. Did I mention that it’s free?
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